Pedigree Generator

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I had to share this with everyone because I’m fairly pleased with myself ;D

I’m not a bigwig programmer or anything that could come near to what Shanthi, and I suspect a few other people on here as well, can do, but I’ve been looking at programming since october/november. I’m 1 for 2 on teacher/professors who actually know how to speak, so total programming learning has been about a week altogether, if that much.

Anyhow, I’ve been working with DarkBASIC lately and tonight I was bored enough to open it up and attempt a program.

Cue… pedigree generator!

Ok, so its only a tiny bit done (its supposed to display 2 horse names, one male, one female, but only does one at the moment), but I have the principles down and I just have to enter in a bunch of names, make the text larger, maybe more pretty looking then a big black screen with white words. But it works enough to display a few names randomly with a loop. So, yay small pitiful program. At least its a tiny step in a vast trail.  :wink:

(A really tiny step. I think there are 9 lines of instruction, and five times that in entered names, lol)

Here are some screenies of my 1/10 finished project->

Top Of Code

Bottom Of Code

End Result

(believe it or not, but in the last one, there is actually tiny, tiny text in the top lefthand corner)

Its got a few little issues that could be fixed that I’ll deal with later. And I’m going to add more of a persona to it to make it neater, maybe some user input as well. But this is what an hour of typing/figuring out got me, lol. At the very least and most, it should help me with FF pedigree ideas.

Now I just have to do the actual assignment I was supposed to do instead of this, and I’ll be alright  :wink:

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Looks pretty neat, I have no idea what I’m looking at programming-wise but great job coming up with it! Good idea.

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Looks good. :slight_smile:  Though just from a logic standpoint, I’d change line #90 to dynamically figure out how big femalenames is, in case you decide to add more later.  Assuming DarkBASIC does that, anyway.

Congrats on coming over to the dark side…

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That was  an awful pun, Shanthi :wink:.

Congrats on your code though. :slight_smile:  Working programs always make me feel incredibly pleased with myself.  Of course, non-working programs can make me feel like an idiot :wink:.  I think my first “real” program I wrote was a C program that Shanthi could use to generate foals waaaay back when.  It basically averaged parent heights and added or subtracted a little, and used this god-awful multidimensional array to figure out what color the foal could be from parents.

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I totally wasn’t aiming for bad puns, I promise. :wink:

I think my first program that I actually wrote myself was attempting to emulate Stretch Drive with my own code.  Needless to say, it didn’t work, but I think our race code’s pretty decent, huge margins aside.

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Seeing as I don’t think I could come up with a complex code at all, just the thought of what had to go into the code impresses me  :wink:

I’ll probably keep on tweaking with it, but I’ve got to finish my other assignments first. But if Color War has a pedigree submission contest, I predict this will come in handy. And DarkBASIC is fairly cheap, so, yeah, lol.

Anyhow thanks for the compliments/semi-cheesy pun, this first program was pretty huge for me :slight_smile: